Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007. Tomah, WI - An employee of the Tomah Health Care Center will serve 60 days in jail for assaulting a resident of the nursing home. Charity Finnigan, 26, pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a Nov. 8 incident in which she was accused of felony abuse of a patient, misdemeanor ... [More >>]
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007. Racine, WI - A nursing home employee accused of twisting an 85-year-old patient's ear hard enough to draw blood faces felony charges. Amelia Clay, 20, of Racine, is charged with abuse and substantial battery with intent to do bodily harm.
Sunday, July 16th, 2006. Madison, WI - A caregiver at a Madison Alzheimer's facility faces a charge of patient abuse for allegedly battering a 90-year-old patient. Marie L. Wells, 45, faces up to six years in prison if convicted. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday: Wells worked as a caregiver at Harbor House, 5555 Burke ... [More >>]
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006. Weyauwega, WI - State and federal fines, now totaling more than $100,000 and imposed on Waupaca County's Lakeview Manor Nursing Home, will have to be borne by county taxpayers, the county finance director says. On May 2, the Department of Health and Family Services issued penalties totaling $52,000 for the violations ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006. Sparta, WI - A former nurse’s aide who admitted to sexually assaulting a 73-year-old Alzheimer’s patient at a Sparta nursing home in February 2005 will spend 20 years in prison. Monroe County Circuit Judge Steven Abbott sentenced James Doeslaere, formerly of Bangor, Wis., Tuesday morning to 20 years in a Wisconsin ... [More >>]
Thursday, March 16th, 2006. Phillips, WI - The state of Wisconsin has released a report on the Pleasant View Nursing Home that alleges at least two incidents of resident abuse and subsequent attempts to cover it up. The report, completed last month by a division of the state Department of Health and Family Services, tracks ... [More >>]
Thursday, March 9th, 2006. Weyauwega, WI - The Waupaca County-operated nursing facility in Weyauwega is facing fines in excess of $50,000 for violations characterized by a state spokesman as "a substandard quality of care." Lakeview Manor received six federal and one state citation in the survey conducted between Feb. 8 and 15. When the survey was ... [More >>]
Sunday, October 16th, 2005. Tomah, WI - A lawsuit stemming from an alleged sexual assault at Rolling Hills Nursing Home earlier this year was filed in Monroe County Circuit Court Oct. 5. The lawsuit was filed by La Crosse attorney Tom Fitzpatrick on behalf of Richard Ballard and Greta M. Ballard, who was allegedly assaulted ... [More >>]
Monday, August 15th, 2005. Madison, WI - A fifth woman now says she was molested by a former St. Mary's nursing assistant. Michael Reveles, 44, will be formally charged today with his seventh felony count of second-degree sexual assault by a treatment facility worker, according to the Dane County district attorneys office. Reveles is accused of ... [More >>]
Friday, July 8th, 2005. Milwaukee, WI - The Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services said Friday plans to close Havenwood Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Milwaukee by this fall. The move comes after the agency assumed operation of the center under a May 13 court order. The state agency took control of Havenwood, 3333 ... [More >>]
